Transgender in the Church: Not Hypothetical

Rev Karl
A while back there was a thread here on SI discussing an essay assignment as part of a college course in which a hypothetical situation was presented, and the student was to discuss their plan to deal with it.

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Preaching Bible in 52 Weeks

ssutter
our church leadership team is praying about 2010 - we really want want to go big and preach/teach/study/read as a congregation through the Bible in a year - we’ve really encouraged people to read in a year before, but we want to preach - and get all of our Sunday schools/small groups/Bible studies all on the same page through the year.

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Building churches through releasing leaders

Joel Tetreau

These are good days at SVBC. We have space issues. We are out of space for our Sunday School ministry. We are challenged in our PM Sunday “ETS” ministry (equip the saints). We are asking the Lord and wrestling with the Town of Gilbert on the in’s and out’s of a new Christian Ed building. Wow is that ever not fun. Thankfully I don’t have to deal with our friends in Gilbert. The guys on the building team do.

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Limping Forward

SharperIron

Editor’s note: this story is true. Only the name of the church has been changed.

By C. L.

I walk with a limp, and consequently, the pastor fired me.

I gained this limp on the first of July, exactly one year from the day I had joined the staff of Berean Baptist Church. That first year had been a great start to my short career as a music minister. Fresh out of school, I was a good match for Berean Baptist. The congregation welcomed me warmly, the choir grew quickly, and the pastor considered me the finest music minister he’d ever worked with in his thirty-plus years of ministry.

But then came the limp. On Friday night, July 1, 1994 I broke my spine. The details involve a family reunion, an old trampoline, and the sound of shattering vertebrae in my ears that faded quickly, replaced by my own voice, mid-scream. No feeling from the waist down, but an inferno of pain engulfing all the nerves that remained online. After the spinal swelling subsided, the surgeons installed two nine-inch steel rods and fused the ruined bones together. They put me in a wheelchair and shuttled me off to rehab. The people of my church prayed and prayed. In a true season of miracle, God moved and I walked home one month after the accident. Neurological injuries can’t be overcome by hard work or willpower, and there is no medical repair for broken nerve tissue. I walk today because God’s good hand was on me.

He did leave me with a limp.

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Expositors Conference 2010 Fremont, CA

WilliamD
Dear Members of SI,

It is my joy and privilege to announce a special conference that our church will be hosting next year that we have called “Preaching for a Change”. Our goal is to help equip pastors and teachers to preach expositionally so that the people to whom they preach will be changed into the image of Christ by the Word of God. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Steve Lawson of Mobile AL and special music will be provided by Thomas Pryde (Sermons in Song).

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Tim's MySpace Music Page

Tim
I just put up a MySpace Music page and wanted to share it. Basically it’s a humble beginning of a ministry/talent/call that I believe God has for me. Music is a testimony of my faith and I hope this testimony will bless and help people seek the gospel. Not only that - I hope it might help Christians get closer to God and encourage them. These are all songs that I have written and I hope they bless you too.

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Christmas plans

Anthony Hayden
I know it is a bit early, but I already have plan set up and we begin rehearsal Saturday, Sept 19th with a Listen and Lunch fellowship.

I plan to use the town of Bethlehem as the theme. We have Coleman’s book “Let the People Sing at Christmas.” We will use 3 songs out of this, and will also sing 3 octavos “Bethlehem Procession” (Choplin), “Hurry Hurry to Bethlehem” (Price & Besig), and “Bethlehem Wind” (J. Martin).

I plan to use our children’s Sunday School classes to simply do the classic Luke 2 nativity with the choir mixed in.

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The Multisite Church, Part 2

KenFields

Reprinted with permission from the Baptist Bulletin, July-August 2009. Read Part 1.

Theological questions—and answers

In preparing for this article, I got my hands on as much multisite literature as I could find. Friends loaned me books—including two multisite church manuals. I Googled…and Googled…and Googled some more! I informally discussed multisite churches with a couple of multisite pastors. Through my reading and research and interviews, my initial concerns with the multisite expansion model remained unresolved. Questions went unanswered. And answers often came attached with, “Well, God is blessing this thing. Our church is growing.” While one cannot argue with God’s apparent blessing, Christians—and especially church leaders—must be certain their philosophy of local church structure squares with Scripture. Before we talk about the multiple sites or campuses, we must understand what the Bible teaches about the church.

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Come serve with us!

TJohnson
Hello;

I work in SE Asia.

I am also aware of needs in Spain, Cambodia, Cameroon, China and many other places.

I would love to connect with anyone desiring to go into missions.

I am a baptistic believer believing in the sovereignty of God, and I desire that God will spread His glory to the Uttermost Parts of the Earth.

I long to discuss missions with anyone desiring to serve.

Thanks,

TJ

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